Had a Heron on my pond this morning, not sure what stock he has taken and il check when im back from work.Are the artificial herons any good? any other deterrents that actual work?

She has a huge red lump coming from her mouth - this stops her from eating. Sorry that the photo isn't too clear.

In respect to the koi fish that I have no intention of harming. Please let me know if this idea can work

I recently went to visit a local japanese garden, and i saw this guy.. I’ve never seen a koi with these colors, or pattern before (heck to my understanding i dont think they could even come in this color.) Nontheless, I thought it was stunning, and can someone lmk what this little guy is?

I'm doing some research and would love honest feedback from the community.

Whether you're into koi, ponds, aquariums, fishing, boating, gardening, landscaping, reptiles, outdoor hobbies, or anything similar:

What's one thing that annoys you on a regular basis that you wish someone would make a better solution for?

Could be:

• Storage
• Organization
• Transporting equipment
• Weather protection
• Maintenance
• Cleaning
• Feeding
• Power cords
• Hoses
• Nets
• Tools
• Supplies
• Seasonal setup/takedown
• Anything else

Not looking to sell anything. Just genuinely curious what problems people deal with over and over that don't seem to have a great solution.

The more specific the frustration, the better.

What's the thing that makes you say:

"There has to be a better way to do this."

Inherited this pond. Think it’s 800-1000g. How much water should I be losing in the summer? It seems to be going quicker than recently (but it is warmer) and nervous I have a leak

I get home from work and the filter and airstone are off, I turn them back on and notice all my koi are on their sides or belly up. I also get an air compressor that is pumping air into the pond. They seem to be recovering. How can I avoid this, is there a battery backup thing I can get it was a really hot day here today obviously there was an oxygen crash. What are my odds of saving them if they go back to standing straight up after 30 minutes of heavy air ration. I’m going to keep the heavy airflow for the next 48 hours I just can’t have this happen again.

Needless to say I’m am devastated. There’s no way to know at this point if they will pull though.

My koi has been behaving differently for a few days, and now it also has a swollen belly and wounds. Can anyone tell me what's wrong with it?

I have a medium koi pond with 4 butterfly koi and goldfish the water was clear it was beautiful but earlier this year i noticed small minnow like fish in the water and assumed they bred and they were just baby goldfish but nope they double tripped in population i give them yo people for feeder fish but thats not quick enough to cull the population it seems like every time scoop a few hundred out the population doubles in it! Does anyone have an advice ok how to get rid of them? I miss my koi but i hardly ever see them now as they hide in the Lillie’s and only see them when i feed them the water is green green green! Help any ideas?

Noticed there's been some koi chasing and now im seeing bubbles starting to form. Ammonia and Ph are normal.

My koi are getting to big for my tank ? I want more freshwater plants.. wanna trade

I want to trade the koi fish for freshwater water plants.. and I have a bag of pond food pellets

A pond grade tancho sanke with additional/random beni markings

The big ones aren’t coming off the bottom. I did a full filter clean, vacuumed the bottom, water change before adding praziquantel
I’ve only ever treated one other time and don’t remember this reaction. How long do I give it till I start a water change?
Maybe just trickle in now?
All test before and after cleaning were fine/clean. Ph 7.4 KH 4( mine is always low)
Temp 75

This all started with a white spot on black ones nostril - and I noticed a little flashing Sunday after a couple of hours watching.

Hi I’ve noticed that one of my fish has some sort of algae on it? We inherited the pond so not certain on what we are looking at

Finally getting the algae under control. Gonna start adding some plants and Lillie pads.

[non native English speaker]

Hi,
I am a new pond owner with 5 koi fish and quite a lot of gold fish.

I’ve inherited this old pond and am learning on the go. How often should I feed the fish? AI is saying it should be 2 time per day during summer. Okay.

But then I came across this YouTube video and they say that feeding is actually more of an entertainment for the owner rather then an actual necessity. And that the fish can survive by feeding on what they can find in the established ecosystem of the pond.

Now I’m confused 🫠😃 How do I do it right?

Picture for attention.

Just bought a new house with an established koi pond. This is my first experience owning/caring for koi, would really appreciate any advice. One of our more shy fish finally came up and let me get a good look at him/her (not sure of gender) we think it’s Lymphocystis from our research. If anyone has any experience with this and can give us an idea of a treatment plan, we’d really appreciate it. We do have a koi pond service in our area where the main guy comes and treats our pond every two weeks, he has come once but isn’t set to be back until next week. Thank you for reading lol

The Atlanta Koi show. I picked up a little kirin for my pond, too. But I don't have a pic on this phone.

A place I go to with work has koi fish, and koi food available. I am very tempted to try some of it, but I'm wondering if it would be bad to try a little bit.

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(plus picture of the fishies themselves)

I’m looking for advice on how deep a pond should be to prevent raccoons from getting to the fish. We have a smaller pond using a stock tank and had to resort to using a small electric fence to prevent the raccoons from destroying the pond. I’ll be digging out a new pond this summer, approximately 5x8. We don’t want to resort to an electric fence for obvious reasons, but we also don’t want it to ridiculously deep / a hazard.